COVID-19: Brazil's most populous state of Sao Paulo to make vaccination mandatory

On October 16, São Paulo Goverr, Brazil said that he would make COVID-19 vaccination mandatory throughout Brazil’s most populous state if approved by National Health Surveillance ncy Anvisa in a state-run press conference. comments quickly created a stir as country's president Jair Bolsonaro h earlier said on social media that Health Ministry will make immunization available to residents "without making it mandatory."

João Doria said that it was appropriate to make immunization obligatory and that he will vaccinate all of state’s 46 million population as he criticized President Jair Bolsonaro’s statements earlier, according to sources of state daily Rio Times. dressing reporters, goverr said that only individuals that can exempt from effective vaccination in his state would be those with a medical certificate. Furr, he thanked accord between China’s Sivac Biotech and Instituto Butantan, a Brazilian biologic research center located in Butantã affiliated with Sao Paulo state health department. Distribution of coronavirus vaccine will be free of charge, Doria said, ding, state alrey has 60 million doses and aims to achieve 100 million. 

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Brazil suffers from ‘Bolsonaro-virus’

While Sivac’s CoronaVac was in phase III clinical human trial in Brazil, 62-year-old politician challenged Bolsonaro with a declaration of  new vaccination rule in state capital. Furrmore, Doria attacked Bolsonaro’s handling of pandemic who h often downplayed virus as “little flu” despite nation’s 153,229 fatalities from malignant pathogen, and mounting caselo of 5,201,570.

far-right leer Bolsonaro has often flouted health safety guidelines and been spotted jet skiing amid lockdown, telling state-run press that “we all die someday". Doria has h heated confrontation with Brazil’s President over his lackaisical approach to pandemic as he said that Brazil suffered from ‘Bolsonaro-virus’. “We’re fighting against coronavirus and against ‘Bolsonaro-virus,’” Doria said in an interview with Associated Press, ding, president has always opted “incorrect, irresponsible positions.”

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